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Historical Event on 1/1/1989

Dinkar Sakrikar, editor of monthly magzine 'Purva' and socialist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/29/2000India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics.
7/23/1976Hari Chand at Montreal sets record for 10,000m in 28.48.72.
5/25/1999The Prime Minister declares the Centre will take all possible steps to push back infiltrators in Kargil.
9/1/1668Mumbai was handed over to East India Company by King of England.
7/28/1924Many deaths were reported and several villages were destroyed due to floods in the south.
6/28/1975Netherlands gives independence to Dutch Guyana, which becomes Suriname; one third of Hindus (descendants of Indian plantation workers) emigrate to Netherlands for better social and economic conditions.
11/10/2000R.M. Shankara and Rashmi Kumari lift men's and women's title in the World carrom championship in New Delhi.
7/7/1999The Indian Army recaptures Jubar height in the Batalik sector.
1/21/1969First India built electronic digital computer commissioned.
5/25/1936Rusi Framroz Surti, cricketer (Indian slow lefty, hat-trick for Qld 1969), was born in Surat, Gujarat.